... successful businessman, and his family lived insecurely. Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870), was a great general who commanded the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Lee's fame is from his military achievements as Confederate commander in the face of overwhelming odds, and on his outstanding personal character. He won ... Mary College and then studied law. He gave up law in 1808 to join the U.S. Army. When the War of 1812 broke out, he became a lieutenant colonel and went to the Canadian border. Scott was captured at the Battle of Queenston Heights, near Niagara Falls, but he was freed a mo...

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... of every 100 people in Maine were born in the United States. Maine's largest ancestry groups include people of English, French, Irish, French-Canadian, and German descent. School Colonial Maine offered little opportunity for formal education. Parents and local ministers often served as teachers. The first school ... of government. Politics. Maine was a Democratic state before the 1850's. Yet most Maine voters became Republicans in the period shortly before the American Civil War. They favored the Republican Party's anti-slavery and pro-Northern policies. For almost a hundred years, until...

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